


tCahiU, Arthur E ] 

^'Mabbett's system" for beating the races. Showing 
how $700 a montli may be earned with a capital of $400 
Boston, Mass., Mabbett & Cahill, 1891. 

15, ill p. 15^'"'". 



i. Betting. 2. Horse-racing. 

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Library ot Coufe.cbs V SF331.C16 

(Copyright 1891: 23219) 



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Total 


8. 


Favorite. 


Second Horse. 


Invested. 


Received. 


$5 $- 


$5 ' $- 


$10, 


■$- 


20 34 


15 30 


35 


64 • 


5 


5 - 


10 


— 


5 - 


10 - 


15 


- 


10 


10 35 


20 


35 


20 52 


10 16 


30 


68 



$120 



Winnings on six races. 



$167 
120 

$47 



In the first race of the day the odds are 2 to 1 against 
the favorite. As you desire to win $Q, play $5, which 
is the smallest amount that Mill do it. Place the fig-ure 
5 on the left-hand side of the " favorite " column. 
The odds against the second horse being 5 to 1 to 
win and. 8 to 5 for place, play it for the place. 
Your desire being to win $6, play $5 therefore on 
the second horse. Place the figure 5 en the left side 
of the " second horse" column. Neither horse won, 
so you carr}' the $10 invested to the left side of the 
"total invested '' column. In the second race the 
odds against the favorite to win are 7 to 10 ; you 
must now recover the $5 you have lost and the $6 
besides, and to do this it is necessary to put up $20. 
The odds against the second horse are 5 to 1 to win 
and even money for the place. On the second horse, 



in the first race, you have $5 lost money to recover, 
so 3'Ou play to ^Yin the $5 lost and $6 besides. It is 
necessary to put up $15, as nothing less than $5, or 
sums divisible by 5, are used. The favorite wins, and 
the second horse gets the place. Place in the right 
side of the " favorite''' column the amount received, 
both investment and winnings, which is $34, and on 
the rio;ht side of the " second horse " column the 
amount received from that investment, carrying both 
sums invested and received into the ''total''' column. 
Having won on the favorite 3'ou commence again 
with a sum sufficient to win the unit of $6, after each 
loss playing sufficient to recover all mon6y lost and 
$6 additional, but not trying to win $6 on each race. 
Keep the accounts of the favorite and second horse 
distinct and separate, posting the total amount in- 
vested and received in the total column at the end of 
each race. At the close of each day, should there 
remain money to recover in either column, carry it 
over to the succeeding day as shown in the table on 
page 12. 

An hour's careful study of the various tables will 
make the system of play clear to any person of aver- 
age intelligence, and by the aid of the table for rapid 
calculation he can test the system l)y the post odds as 
published in " Sporting World "or " Goodwin's Turf 
Guide'' and become convinced of its practicability. 
Be sure, however, that you thoroughly understand 
the system before playing it, and jon will leave the 
race-traek or pool-room with a big fat " wad " where 
before you only helped to fatten the book-maker. 



POOL-ROOM PLAY. 

For one man who speculates on the races at the 
track, there are ten men who confinfe themselves to 
l^ool-room phiy, antl to most of them the iincling- of 
$400 is simply ont of the question. The table on 
page 14 shows what can be done with a ca^iital of 
$200, playing for a unit of $3 instead of $6. Put up 
money enough to win at least $3 on the quoted odds, 
covering losses when you lose, and adding up the 
totals as at the track. As the third betting comes in 
oftentimes too late to make a play on the race, it 
would be well where there are two pronounced 
favorites Xo hnj your tickets at the odds laid at the 
second betting. It will be found that new favorites 
are very rarely established at the third betting, and 
in most eases you have the advantage of better odds 
than by waiting till the horses are at the post. 



10 



"GOOD THINGS" TO FOLLOW 



Do not depart from the system to play any man's 
*' good things/" In folloAvmg " Mabbett's System,'" 
remember that you are phiying on the concentrated 
judgment of thousands of skilled men, as shown by 
the way they place their money. Abe Lincoln once 
said, " You can fool all ihe people part of the time, 
and part of the people all the time, but you can't 
fool all the people all the time." 

Do not play a horse at 2 to 1 " on'' after two con- 
secutive defeats. It will require too much capital, 
and so pronounced a favorite does not win often 
enouo-h to take the risk. 

AVhere both first and second choices go to the post 
equal favorites at odds of 3 to 1 or better, pla}^ both 
for place. 

Where prohibitive odds are laid against the favor- 
ite, pass the race by, except that the second horse 
may still be played for place if the odds are right. 

Consider 3 to 5 as prohibitive odds after three 
consecutive defeats. 

In pool-room play it will occasionally happen that 



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two horses go to the post at the same odds. Select 
the one which opens up at the shortest price. 

It has been said, and with truth, that no system 
dependent upon playing the favorites can win in the 
fall of the year. It will be seen, however, that where 
both choices are played, as shown in the table on 
page 15, that that objection is overruled, and that 
the buyer of this book may win a " barrel of money ■' 
from the idea is the sincere wish of 

The Author. 



The publishers will take jileasure in answering by mail any ques- 
tions in regard to the system which the book may not make clear 
to them. 



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